Smile!In the odd news of the day, a shark was pulled out of a river in Iraq, 160 miles from the sea. Although it is unusual to find a shark that far upriver, it is not completely unheard of for a shark to swim up a fresh water river.

But it is the end of the Reuters story that reminds me of how well things are going in Iraq in our efforts to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people:

Locals blamed the U.S. military for the shark’s presence. Tahseen Ali, a teacher, said there was a “75 percent chance” Americans had put the shark in the water.

“This is very frightening for us. Our children always swim in the river and I believe that there are more sharks. I believe that America is behind this matter,” said fisherman Hatim Karim.

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